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Seems like an overreaction, imho. This is likely a case of poor Privacy Policy writing and general ineptitude, rather than deliberate evil. From their feature
by willidiots 15y ago
Seems like an overreaction, imho. This is likely a case of poor Privacy Policy writing and general ineptitude, rather than deliberate evil.
From their feature list:
"Easy to use : when a video is detected, the download button becomes clickable." - i.e. our plugin sends all URLs to us for analysis, we respond telling the plugin whether to activate the button
"Integrated Traffic Rank indicator for all the sites you visit." - i.e. we need a way of measuring unique visits to everything
Still, interesting, and good on this guy for bringing it into the public eye.
- cont4gious 15y agobut absolutely none of that requires a unique identifier, which is where this article focuses most of it's gripe.
- willidiots 15y agoIt seems like the "Integrated Traffic Rank indicator" could, if they wanted to distinguish uniqueness by users rather than unique IPs. Not that it's a good idea.
- beagle3 15y agoWhile I usually follow "do not ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", I don't think this case is adequately explained by stupidity.